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Microbial Genomics
H-index 38

Microbial Genomics

2057-5858

Published by: Microbiology Society

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/mgen

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Genetics 30 93 174 29
Microbiology 52 304 383 33
Biology and Biochemistry 185 172 277 30

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 683
Documents by Best Scientists*: 639
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 25
SCIMAGO H-index: 57
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.539
Impact Factor: 4

Top Publications

  • Bakta: rapid and standardized annotation of bacterial genomes via alignment-free sequence identification.

    Oliver Schwengers;Lukas Jelonek;Marius Alfred Dieckmann;Sebastian Beyvers

    (2021)
    1161 Citations
  • ResFinder – an open online resource for identification of antimicrobial resistance genes in next-generation sequencing data and prediction of phenotypes from genotypes

    (2022)
    347 Citations
  • Kaptive 2.0: updated capsule and lipopolysaccharide locus typing for the Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex

    Unknown

    (2022)
    279 Citations
  • Identification of Acinetobacter baumannii loci for capsular polysaccharide (KL) and lipooligosaccharide outer core (OCL) synthesis in genome assemblies using curated reference databases compatible with Kaptive.

    Kelly L Wyres;Sarah M Cahill;Kathryn E Holt;Kathryn E Holt;Ruth M Hall

    (2020)
    180 Citations
  • Metagenomic approaches in microbial ecology: an update on whole-genome and marker gene sequencing analyses.

    Ana Elena Pérez-Cobas;Laura Gomez-Valero;Carmen Buchrieser

    (2020)
    170 Citations
  • Platon: identification and characterization of bacterial plasmid contigs in short-read draft assemblies exploiting protein sequence-based replicon distribution scores.

    Oliver Schwengers;Patrick Barth;Linda Falgenhauer;Torsten Hain

    (2020)
    161 Citations

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